African Traditional Architecture
Author: Susan Denyer
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780435890599
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Author: Susan Denyer
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780435890599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an extraordinary account of the evolution, transformation and development of architecture across this continent. It is examined and evaluated from a wide range of ethnic, climatic, political economic and religious factors.
Author: Kaj Blegvad Andersen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeschrijving van leefgewoonten, bouwkunst en gebruiksvoorwerpen van verschillende stammen
Author: Jean-Paul Bourdier
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415585439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of ideas and construction practices which contradict the widespread image of the primitive huts comonly atributed to rural Africa... The cultural dimension and its application using different architectural practices are illustrated in this work."--Book jacket.
Author: Antoni S. Folkers
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 3030010759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture. It brings together the worlds of traditional site-specific architecture with the Modernist Project in Africa, which to date have only been considered in isolation. The book covers the four architectural disciplines: urban planning, building technology, building physics, and conservation. It includes an introduction with a historical outline and an analysis and comparison of a number of projects in various countries in Africa. On the basis of examples drawn from practice, the author documents and describes the hybrid architectural forms that have emerged from the confrontation and fusion with (pre)modern Western architecture and urban planning, and in so doing he also narrates the history of African architecture.
Author: Manuel Herz
Publisher:
Published: 2022-10-10
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9783038602941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When the first edition of African Modernism was published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book becomes available again in a new edition. In the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial power. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed countries expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were newly taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster for the book's first edition. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed in an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Further essays on postcolonial Africa and specific aspects and topics, also illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.
Author: PRUSSIN LABELLE
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 1997-07-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781560987567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Handsomely illustrated with many color photographs, this book . . . offers a massive amount of data on the technologies, styles and designs, as well as the symbolic and ritual meanings, of women's tent and related architecture in (various African) cultures".--WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS. 24 color, 66 bandw photos. 148 line drawings.
Author: Jonathan Alfred Noble
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1351960407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretise' imaginative dialogues with African landscapes, craft and indigenous traditions. Referring to Frantz Fanon's classic study of colonised subjectivity, 'Black Skin, White Masks', Noble contends that Fanon's metaphors of mask and skin are suggestive for architectural criticism, in the context of post-Apartheid public design. Taking South Africa's first democratic election of 1994 as its starting point, the book focuses on projects that were won in architectural competitions. Such competitions are conceived within ideological debates and studying them allows for an examination of the interrelationships between architecture, politics and culture. The book offers insights into these debates through interviews with key parties concerned - architects, competition jurors, politicians, council and city officials, artists and crafters, as well as people who are involved in the day-to-day life of the buildings in question.
Author: Epée Ellong
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-09-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1476634890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHousing has changed in Sub-Saharan Africa since the Europeans arrived. Africans no longer live in traditional homes. This historical transition from "hut to house," from traditional to Western style, reflects slavery, colonialism and other social influences. This book focuses on Cameroon, known as "Africa in Miniature" because of its geographical and cultural representation of the continent at large. Architectural styles, materials and construction techniques are discussed within a larger context, examining how lifestyle changes and architectural trends influence each other. This work is a rich examination of the challenges and opportunities for a new generation of African architects to integrate the lessons of the past and create a future more responsive to the region's needs.
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Publisher:
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783037786864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo stars of contemporary architecture explore the unique handling of light and heat in the architecture of Burkina Faso Across the African continent, but especially in the sub-Saharan regions, the light has a particularly stark quality, which becomes most apparent in relation to older buildings. Before electricity, architecture was required to make use of the sun as a light source within a building, while also protecting its inhabitants from the heat. This resulted in vernacular architecture that features very few or small openings, which consequently render the inside of a building near pitch black, while the outside is illuminated by sunshine that bears down mercilessly. On the initiative of the lighting technology company Zumtobel Group, photographer Iwan Baan (born 1975) and architect Francis Kéré (born 1965) set out to capture how the sun's natural light cycle shapes vernacular architecture in Burkina Faso with little to no artificial light sources. They traveled to three exemplary locations: communal compounds in Gando; the main mosque of Bobo Dioulasso; and the terraced houses in Dano. Baan's pictures are accompanied by architectural sketches by Francis Kéré, who himself grew up in this light environment and whose architecture is inspired by it. The stunning photographs are printed using a special technique, to give a sense of being immersed in the very light conditions documented here.